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2020 Democratic Challengers: Who ISN'T Running At This Point?

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I can't figure out how Biden, who hasn't even officially announced that he's running, is polling as high as he is. In fact, I will probably never understand why the two fossils are polling way above everyone else. And before the Bernouts start, yes I know demsoc is a popular position now.

Most people don't want to think about politics until they have to. Sanders and Biden have name recognition. I suspect other people will rise when the actual debates near and money is spent instead of fundraised.
 
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I can't figure out how Biden, who hasn't even officially announced that he's running, is polling as high as he is. In fact, I will probably never understand why the two fossils are polling way above everyone else. And before the Bernouts start, yes I know demsoc is a popular position now.

It’s 100% name recognition now. Remember the vast majority of people don’t pay attention until after the nomination. So at this point they haven’t even started to pay attention to the fact that they aren’t paying attention.

The candidates’ only goal right now is to get the average person to say “Yeah, I’ve heard of that person.” It doesn’t even matter how or, to some extent, if it’s good or bad news that got his or her name lodged into the person’s brain.

As they whittle down from 8,304 names to three or four, that’s when you start to differentiate between the real candidates.
 
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I can't figure out how Biden, who hasn't even officially announced that he's running, is polling as high as he is. In fact, I will probably never understand why the two fossils are polling way above everyone else. And before the Bernouts start, yes I know demsoc is a popular position now.

I can't figure out what Kamala did to drop four points.
 
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Most people don't want to think about politics until they have to. Sanders and Biden have name recognition. I suspect other people will rise when the actual debates near and money is spent instead of fundraised.
That's kinda what I suspect and with Joe Biden not even announcing there just isn't much critical media focus on him.
It’s 100% name recognition now.
Around this time of the Republican cycle Jeb was polling the highest.
 
Hopefully Emerson will keep doing this poll methodically every month:

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[B]Candidate      3/18  4/14 Change[/B]
Sanders         .26   .29   +.03
Biden           .26   .24   -.02
Buttigieg       .03   .09   +.06
O'Rourke        .11   .08   -.03
Harris          .12   .08   -.04
Warren          .08   .07   -.01
Castro          .01   .03   +.02
Yang            .01   .03   +.02
Booker          .03   .02   -.01
Swalwell        ---   .01   +.01
Klobuchar       .01   .01    .00
Gravel          ---   .01   +.01
Gabbard         .01   .01    .00
Ryan            ---   .01   +.01
Delaney         ---   .01   +.01
Inslee          .01   .00   -.01
Messam          ---   .00    .00
Hickenlooper    .01   .00   -.01
Williamson      ---   .00    .00
Gillibrand      .00   .00    .00

Need a poll on 1st to drop out?

Going back a ways, I think JFK didn't officially declare to early 1960. However, there were a lot less primaries back then.
 
Not democrat, but Gov. Weld has made his bid official.

Not sure what thread this would belong in, but glad to see..

https://news.yahoo.com/ex-massachusetts-governor-challenges-trump-2020-republican-presidential-224340602.html;_ylt=AwrC0wzQNrVcJHoA6piZmolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByOHZyb21tBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--

Obviously a long shot, but was an outstanding governor during his time in Massachusetts. He would make an excellent president.
 
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Bernie seemed to do pretty good on Faux at his town hall.
 
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Bernie seemed to do pretty good on Faux at his town hall.

end of the day he IS their demographic. angry old white dude. (he just wants to give everyone's money away instead of squirreling it into a tree :D)
 
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Bernie seemed to do pretty good on Faux at his town hall.

Serious non-trolling question: Did Bernie pay his "fair share"? I know he paid what he owed but does this meet the "fair share" threshold since he was in the 1% last year?
 
Serious non-trolling question: Did Bernie pay his "fair share"? I know he paid what he owed but does this meet the "fair share" threshold since he was in the 1% last year?

His income was not capital gains, so he didn’t benefit from the lower rate like most 1%ers
 
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Man, the Bernie bros are going to be insufferable if he doesn’t get the nomination. Their Facebook comments are already almost as obnoxious as Trump Turds.
 
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